... western cultural characteristics influenced by industrial capitalism in the 17-18 century, have changed the public spaces and encouraged a retreat into the private realm of the family and friends, where public places were consists of cafes and etc where people's discussions were open to scrutiny. But still, for Sennett, according to bridge and Watson (2000) heterogeneous public spaces and social diversity of cities have offered progressive social and civilising open and unpredictable encounters, which brings people from diverse backgrounds and cultures together. According to him, disorder in public is something that aggravate the impulse, and therefore the freedom to be disorderly in public provokes more liveliness in public spaces, therefore the privatisation of the public space become mono-functional. As for Arendit, another writer, Sennett (1970) describes, public realm is a place where a person go beyond their social, racial and cultural differences into an equalization community, whether they are coloured, female ...

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